Before you ask, I'm not trying to showcase my popularity. I'm not mr. popular, that said I do alright. I just ask, because personally I'm a fan of individuality.
It doesn't irritate me if someone starts playing the same game, or watching the same show or webseries as me, that's fair enough. Entertainment value and the like. But when it applies to personal things, it does bug me a little. I seem to have developed a habit of trend setting, as of late. I seem to have been responsible for people where I live using the phrase "you so silly", among others.
A couple of months ago, I started wearing a trilby. I got several compliments on it, random strangers eating in a local pub started chatting to each other about it, the words "quite stylish" were thrown around. I'm far from the first person to discover this hat, but admit it, it isn't too common is it? As of late, since I started wearing it more and more, I've noticed more people wearing them. Not too bad, I thought, there are lots of different material and colour variations on them, but then I've seen a bunch of people wearing the exact type of trilby I do. Fair enough if I've actually gone and started something, like winter last year, deerstalkers were very popular around here.
The thing is, I liked my hat because it was kind of unique (not trying to sound like a hipster here) I'm not going to stop wearing it, and hopefully this trend will die out in a few months, but I just think there are a lot of cool and interesting hats out there (hence why I have a small collection, but this is the one I frequently wear.) and not everyone needs a trilby, right?
So does it irritate you when people copy you?
It doesn't irritate me if someone starts playing the same game, or watching the same show or webseries as me, that's fair enough. Entertainment value and the like. But when it applies to personal things, it does bug me a little. I seem to have developed a habit of trend setting, as of late. I seem to have been responsible for people where I live using the phrase "you so silly", among others.
A couple of months ago, I started wearing a trilby. I got several compliments on it, random strangers eating in a local pub started chatting to each other about it, the words "quite stylish" were thrown around. I'm far from the first person to discover this hat, but admit it, it isn't too common is it? As of late, since I started wearing it more and more, I've noticed more people wearing them. Not too bad, I thought, there are lots of different material and colour variations on them, but then I've seen a bunch of people wearing the exact type of trilby I do. Fair enough if I've actually gone and started something, like winter last year, deerstalkers were very popular around here.
The thing is, I liked my hat because it was kind of unique (not trying to sound like a hipster here) I'm not going to stop wearing it, and hopefully this trend will die out in a few months, but I just think there are a lot of cool and interesting hats out there (hence why I have a small collection, but this is the one I frequently wear.) and not everyone needs a trilby, right?
So does it irritate you when people copy you?